Meir Lixenberg

Meir Lixenberg (1965-27 August 2001) was the councilor and head of security of four settlements of Israel in the West Bank. Lixenberg was assassinated by the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during the Second Intifada.

Biography
Meir Lixenberg was born in 1965 in Itamar, Israel, and Lixenberg became the father of five. He became a member of the Itamar Local Council and became a councilor and head of security in four Israeli settlements in the West Bank. During the Second Intifada, when Palestinians fought the Jews in their lands from 2000 to 2005, the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine carried out several attacks. Lixenberg was murdered by Arabs on his way home from work; as his car approached his home community of Itamar, south of Shechem, he was shot in the head and killed. His driver survived, and Lixenberg died in a hospital when attempts to revive him failed. In response, Israel destroyed a Palestinian Authority paramilitary post in Kalil, between Itamar and Shechem. His death was one of the first attacks carried out by the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades.